Wired for Survival: The Rational (and Irrational) Choices We Make, from the Gas Pump to Terrorism

Index

A

Adams, Harold, 79-81

age and learning, 83

allocortex, 39

Anderson, Laurie, 31

Apple Computer

“1984” commercial, 95

“Lemmings” commercial, 96

“The Argument”’ sketch (Monty Python), 49-50

association cortex, 42

atomic bomb, use of, 2

axons, 34

B

Barsalou, Lawrence, 89, 103

basal ganglia, 42

Bayes’ rule, 111

Berntson, Gary, 92

biases in reasoning process, 91-93

biological value systems, 90-91

bipolar neurons, 34

Booz Allen Hamilton, 116

brain

association cortex, 42

basal ganglia, 42

brainstem, 38

cerebellum, 38

cerebral cortex, 38

allocortex, 39

corpus callosum, 39

function of, 40–42

hemispheres, 39

hypothalamus, 41

mesocortex, 39

neocortex, 39

thalamus, 41

cerebrum, 38

frontal lobe, 42

functional anatomy, 42

glial cells, 33

hippocampus, ...